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New research from Norway finds a large overlap between children with attention deficit disorder/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD, or autism), epilepsy and cerebral palsy. Scientists in Norway studied more than 700,000 children and published the results online in Pediatrics on June 18. They found the most overlap occurring in boys age 11 and younger. Specifically, the researchers found that: 17 percent of autistic children had ADD/ADHD 11 percent of autistic children had epilepsy 6 percent of children with ADD/ADHD were autistic 5 percent of children with ADD/ADHD were epileptic 13 percent of epileptic children had cerebral palsy 8 percent of epileptic children had ADD/ADHD 6 percent of epileptic children were autistic “The findings demonstrate the significant burden of disease associated with neurologic and neurodevelopmental disorders in children, and that this burden is disproportionately skewed towards boys,” wrote lead researcher Pål Surén and colleagues in the report….
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